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Werk #2311: windows agent: now replaces BOM (byte order marks) from local and plugin scripts

Component Checks & agents
Title windows agent: now replaces BOM (byte order marks) from local and plugin scripts
Date Jun 23, 2015
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.2.7i2 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

Some windows plugins recklessly reported byte order marks at the beginning of their output, which lead problems when the data was evaluated.

With this change byte order marks will be replaced by empty lines. Empty lines in the agent output are ignored, so there won't be any side effects.

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